LT. Warhero

its preferable to build the large sections out of wooden materials since printing a flat surface without details is a waste of printer materials and time. Printing items with high details is usually done with low printing speeds and take up quite a bit of time. Just printing the surfaces with details and make inlays in the wooden panels or screw them to the panels would be less time consuming and can be done with a minimum of compromise usually. It just take a ton of time building a fully enclosed simpit.

nice setup

yup Started over entirely after the previous one which was too big. And full of design mistakes and missing links in fusion

Finally coming along. Pretty happy with the design and size now. Feels like it is what it needs to be. Next up; software For those who are interested in building this themselves. files are available on https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/boeing-ah-64-apache-helicopter-left-and-right-hand-grip-for-co-pilot-gunner-seat They're €60 but for people contacting me here, ill be happy to send em over for 55

version 2 is coming along at this point and i believe its pretty close to the actual grip. Got some problems with ghosting and some weird warping effect with my high speed pla at this moment. some sanding should take out the most rough edges, but i believe the lettering it a little too small to be able to be properly printed. pretty happy so far compared to my first attempt

Looking real good alain Really loving your pink mouse Im going back to the drawing board and starting over. My design is about twice as big as it turns out it needs to be and im not happy with the feel of the grip. My sketches in fusion are no longer viable for rolling all the way back, since I learnt fusion by making the grip and learnt along the way that, having everything linked to other dimensions, having your sketches linked to eachother and fixing them as soon as problem arise is quite vital in case you need to roll back to adjust something

Here's how they look so far, coming out of the printer. and being provided with some actuators already. Some sides are quite rough. they are quite bulky, so I might have some dimensions wrong. But in general I am quite pleased with this so far. It took about 14h to print the handle components and had to redo the triggerhousing part a couple of times due to weak points.

PLA right now, if i am pleased with the model i might switch it to carbon fiber

Hey everyone, I've been seeing all this great enthousiasm for the builds with the upcoming updates on the apache I bought myself a 3d printer and starting working on the grips myself. been drawing for about 2 weeks to get to the current point. Nearly ready to go into printing phase. Started learning fusion360 on the go xD. ill be happy to get to the printing phase at this moment. ill worry about the electronics once im confident on the grips hardware? what do you guys think?